Steven Seagal is the master of cultural appropriation in Hard to Kill, On Deadly Ground, The Patriot, Belly of the Beast and Today You Die.
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Tag: Japan
Two Seasons, Two Strangers. Wistful and Intimate Compassion.
Two distinct, writerly stories emerge from Sho Miyake’s pen in his wistful adaptation of Yoshiharu Tsuge’s manga Mr. Ben and His Igloo, A View of the Seaside.
Berlinale Shorts 2025 Part One: Dreams and Nightmares
From oddball animation to Asian coming-of-age stories to big tech’s uncanny valley, we look at ten shorts from the Berlinale Shorts programme.
Cloud Finds the Apocalypse in E-Commerce
Cloud, the latest from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, shows how fears about the internet have drastically evolved since Pulse (2001). Live from Venice.
Okurimono Captures the Long Shadow of History
A personal tale of atomic devastation set in the stunning town of Nagasaki, Laurence Lévesque’s Okurimono is a slow-burn inquiry into the ever-present past.
Sidonie In Japan. Translation, Adrift
Sidonie In Japan is a classic example of a fine actress phoning it in, wasting Huppert’s talents in a generic, unconvincing cross-cultural examination of grief.